Sep

28

When OSGi (or modularity in general) is doing it's job, it is preventing things from getting done. That's the job of OSGi, to prevent things from working except within very narrow contractual relationships.

Which is why OSGi deserves a slow and painful death. OK OK OK, that's only the way I feel when I get in these week long moods that stem from my inability to get all the metadata right, and I can't get my "modules" to run perfectly. Read more »

Warms My Heart?

Sep

21

Dangerous Fred

Every big team has seen one or two of these guys. Dangerous Fred. Brilliant and stupid at the same time, breaks the wrong rules and still gets pretty amazing stuff done. But you don't want him touching your code.

How many meetings do I have to go to, to keep Fred off my project?

I think I've been Fred in decades past, at least once or twice. Sure have written a couple things I'm not so proud of, on the way to becoming a slightly better programmer. Read more »

Sep

11

I was wrong to think of UI developers as lightweights. A good UI developer is anything but a lightweight.

There. I've said it.

Arrogance, thy name is Pete

10 years ago I felt I had to make a choice. I could either specialize in the back end stuff, architecture, databases, such as that. Or I could do UI.

DId I make the right decision career wise? Maybe. I chose the back end, and it's been a really nice ride. I'm a systems guy, and there's enough there to keep me always learning, the money hasn't been bad, all is well. Read more »

Aug

13

Because I'm not a lawyer and I don't understand how the law works regarding virtually every tool I use (and it must be in the hundreds including all the libraries I consume), this scares me.

Oracle owns the language that I've programmed in for over a decade. In an economic sense, Java is my lifeline. If they ever decide to aggressively pursue revenues, I haveno idea how that could impact me negatively. But it seems like it could be huge.